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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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To be honest, as this world goes, is to be. One man picked out of ten thousand.
Hamlet 2,2 -
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
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To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
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To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
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To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
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